That's capitalists not scientists. Scientists make bridges possible, capitalists charge you to cross them.
naevaTheRat
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Why do you assume it's not the reporting that's stupid?
ah but it is which is the delightful magic. A fruit with all the complexity of a good cheese and none of the horror. Woven from air with sunlight and gifted freely.
What a generous thing the durian! Mana from heaven.
They smell amazing idk what's wrong with people. Yes there are some chemicals in there commonly associated with noxious stuff, but that's also true of like garlic and onions.
Durian you fools! King of fruit, a divine and complex flavour.
Toffee and onion and sour cream and mango and banana and custard and pineapple all dance together. Ah durian, the only fruit worth travelling for to eat fresh off the tree.
Durian my beloved.
2003: "You're so edgy 🙄" 2023: "You're so edgy 🥵"
It's a mother. fucking. chi!
A topologist, fan of dwarf fortress, and connoisseur of fine memes.
Where are people like you in meatspace?
please tell me you've seen this downfall meme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyD4p8_y8Kw
I've tried to teach myself topology several times and always end up feeling so angry at the naming
If you are concerned about water usage then animal ag is the big thing to remove from your life.
Generally just consuming less, huge amounts of water get used making completely unnecessary shit like softdrink.
In terms of energy usage generally the vast majority of a household's energy usage is driving. So my advice?
Walk or cycle where you can, go vegan, buy less junk, and guiltlessly enjoy long hot showers outside of drought conditions.
If you like absurdly long showers look into mist showers (saves water not energy) or just water shaving shower heads.
arch is basic. It's just minimalise by default.
It has an amazing wiki, extremely active and helpful user forums, and an installer (i think now) or at least a massively helpfully customised shell for initial setup.
you can install arch and make it look like mint or whatever easily, then the only difference is pacman and the amazing AUR
You're a bit jumbled up here.
There are P N junctions where the magic happens. The P side conducts by moving vacant electron "slots" through the structure, we call these holes as in electron holes. There isn't a lack of electrons or anything, both N and P are charge neutral, instead: Where in a metal if you push an electron into it in a circuit it bumps another one over a bit and so on in a P type you pull an electron off one end, the "hole" moves taking an electron from deeper in to fill where it was until at the end it pulls another in.
As you can see the number of holes is constant under normal circumstances. We pay attention to them for reasons that'll become clear.
Now since N types want to volunteer electrons and P types have little electron holes ready, and these are negatively and positively charged (remember overall the material is neutral though) if we put them together then in a very narrow region some holes will accept electrons and fill up. As this happens ion cores (nuclei of the atoms making up the material missing an electron) are exposed in the N type making a small positive region, while the extra electrons in the P type make a small negative region. This balances the hole-electron attraction exactly and we have a stable charge depleted region.
Following? let's talk about lightning for a moment.
you know how everything becomes a conductor if you try hard enough? think lightning jumping down through air, a tree, and some literal earth. Well lighting ionises (pulls electrons off making a kind of gas made of charged particles) stuff mostly but there's a special sort of state most metals and similar can get to (indeed most metals are in this state at room temperature) where they're sort of lightly ionised. Instead of the electron going away it sort of becomes promiscuous and is happy to share its time with nearby atoms.
Electrons in this state have certain energy levels associated with them, we call this band of states the conduction band. To get to that energy state you need to go from the valence band across a "band gap " to be promoted to slutty electron.
OK so these bound hole-electron pairs moved from the conduction band to the valence band when they settled down with each other. They can't conduct anymore. But if a photon hits them just right they trial an open marriage and separate into the conduction band. The electron is now more attracted to the positively charged region back from whence it came and visa versa for the hole. Once they get bumped over they have to go the long way round the circuit to find each other again and that's how we get energy.